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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

This just in: "The Washington Post is still dead." So, too, is Matt Drudge. "Woodward and Bernstein circa 1972 they ain't." Time for a cacerolazo.

A cacerolazo or cacerolada is a form of popular protest practised in certain Spanish-speaking countries – in particular Argentina – which consists in a group of people creating noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils in order to call for attention. What is peculiar about this type of demonstration is that the people protest from their own homes, thus achieving a high level of support and participation.

The word comes from Spanish cacerola, which means "stew pot". The derivative suffix -azo denotes a hitting (punching or striking) action, and has been extended metaphorically to any sort of shock demonstration. -- Wikipedia.

The Gunwalker story continues to poke along, without much real investigative reportage on the part of "authorized journalists," which is no doubt a comfort to the cover-up artists of the ATF, FBI and DOJ. They know they're caught, but then they've been caught before and gotten away with it when the press failed to follow up. Even a normally astute sniffer of scandals guy like Jerry Seper of the Washington Times managed to write a story yesterday that was barely skin deep.

The largely lazy "authorized journalists" David and I have spoken with have been easily distracted by events (the best real reporter early on in this story was snatched away from it to cover the story in Egypt) or by the difficulty of getting behind the cover-up. They consistently demand that we turn over OUR sources, unmindful of the legalities and consequences for the whistleblowers, and seem incapable of developing their own, even when we point them in the right direction. Some seem unable to find the phone number of Senator Grassley's office. Woodward and Bernstein circa 1972 they ain't.

And it isn't just "authorized journalists." Matt Drudge has ignored every tip and link that David, I and others have sent him since 28 December. Alvie D. Zane has addressed this mystery by sending an Open Letter to Matt Drudge, which he invites others to cut, paste and send to Drudge.

Alvie sent me this email just a few minutes ago:

You know what’s ironic that I didn’t even swerve into? Drudge started out as an obscure one man show just putting what was interesting on his web page. A guy with a computer. A couple of guys with their computers are breaking Project Gunwalker. And where is Drudge on this story?

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Has he become the very model of a modern media figure that he used to despise and mock regularly?

Pete at Western Rifle Shooters links to Alvie's piece and goes one step further, asking that readers "take the substance of Alvie's letter, along with David's automatically-updated log of his and Mike's work in the case, and send same not only to Drudge, but also to the following media outlet email addresses." He then lists links to a host of world-wide press outlets, from Al Jazeera to the BBC.

If this story is to move, it must BE moved by the people who want to see justice done in the murder of CBP Agent Brian Terry. It is time for a cacerolazo of the people to draw attention to this story. Some of you are already doing your best. Keep it up. Bang louder.

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Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann said that to be legally considered an assault weapon, the gun needed to have a folding stock, which it didn’t have. It had a folding barrel, which Hoffmann said is not illegal.

Like you, I have sent Drudge a tip with every new bit of information. He could have scooped every major news outlet in America with this story but apparently he's not interested in that.

Several days ago I sent him an email asking him why he felt Janet Jackson's decades-old sibling abuse stories were more considered to be more newsworthy than this one? It really makes no sense.

Aside from being a scandal of epic proportions, Project Gunwalker contains sensationalism on so many levels one would think reporters would love to dive knee deep into it! Murder and corruption with links to the highest levels of U.S. government? Yep! Links to the Mexican drug cartels, porous borders, illegal aliens, and keeping Mexican authorities in the dark? Yep! Incompetence, harassment, lies, and denial? Yep! It's all there, but Drudge and others remain uninterested.

What interests him today is "Scottish Deerhound (dog) is Best in Show". *facepalm*

I, too, tried to clue in Drudge the other day. He won't even post one of his little linkless "Possible ATF Scandal ... Developing ... " blurbs to show it's penetrated his awareness, even if he isn't ready to report it.

Do you think we might have better luck with that Taiwanese television station that takes current news stories and turns them into CGI cartoons? They seem to have a real eye for the absurd and hypocritical, and the stories they do get a lot of attention.

I think the current Federal Communications Commission plan to yank licenses if TV stations and websites provide no "public value" has everyone extremely anxious. Besides, to our socialist opposition, if ATF has to make gun violence worse and lie about it in order to finally "eliminate it," who gives a rat's ass? You're not IN FAVOR OF violence, are you, comrade? The next strong breeze could uproot the Liberty Tree.

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

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When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.